Barbara Brown (American actress)
Barbara Brown | |
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Born | Barbara Ann Brown October 18, 1901 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills |
Occupation | Actress |
Spouse(s) | Forrest Taylor, Jr. (married 1939–1968; his death) |
Barbara Ann Brown[1] (October 18, 1901 – July 7, 1975) was an American actress.
Early life
Barbara Brown was born in 1901 in Los Angeles, California, to Selma C. (née Teutschmann; 1874–1947)[2] and Edward Brown.[3] Her mother was the daughter of German immigrants.[4]
Career
Brown began acting on the stage in California. In 1922, she had leading roles in Oliver Morosco's productions Wait Till We're Married[5] and Abie's Irish Rose.[6] She went on to act in Broadway plays such as Relations (1928), Mother Lode (1934), Play, Genius, Play! (1935), Behind Red Lights (1937), Sun Kissed (1937), Our Town (1938), and Liberty Jones (1941).
Brown began appearing in films in the early 1940s. She played Mrs. Delfina Acuña, the mother of Rita Hayworth's character, in You Were Never Lovelier (1942), starring Fred Astaire and Hayworth. In 1944, she was cast in Janie and Hollywood Canteen.[7] She and Ray Collins played Ma and Pa Kettle's in-laws in the comedies Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951) and Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1953). She had a supporting role in the Abbott and Costello comedy Jack and the Beanstalk (1952).
Personal life and death
She married Forrest Taylor, Jr., the son of actor Forrest Taylor, in 1939 in New York City.[3] Taylor died in 1968, and Brown died on July 7, 1975 in Los Angeles;[8] both were interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills.
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External links
- Barbara Brown at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Barbara Brown at the Internet Movie Database
- Barbara Brown at Find a Grave
- 1922 photograph of Barbara Brown
- Articles with hCards
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- 1901 births
- 1975 deaths
- 20th-century American actresses
- Actresses from Los Angeles, California
- American stage actresses
- American film actresses
- American television actresses
- American people of German descent
- Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)